Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1909 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The twenty-fifth Indiana educational butter scoring will be held July 22, at the Indianapolis cold storage plant by the dairy department of the Purdue experiment station. ; r ‘ Mr. and Mrs. H&rvey Davisson, of Union township, left yesterday for Colorado. Mrs. Davisson’s health has been very had and she will probably remain there for several months. Rev. Kindig left this morning for a short stay at Mudlava Springs, Attica. Arrangements will be made for someone to occupy the M. E. pulpit next Sunday, should the reverend fail to return by that time. The Monon railroad yesterday handled four picnic trains between Chicago and Cedar Lake and carried 3,000 people. The Monon also ran an excursion from Greencastle to 'Chicago. The train was made up of ten coaches and carried 500 people. A number from here took in the excursion. The international convention of the Catholic Order of Foresters will he held at Montreal in August. E. P. Honan, of this city, is one of the three delegates from this state. The other two are Jake Dienhart, of Lafayette, and John Herzog; of Mishawaka. They will leave Chicago August Ist in a special train and will he gone ten days. They will have the privilege of returning by water if desired. J. F. Osborne had another hemorrhage yesterday afternoon at one o’clock and still another at two o’clock this morning. He is very weak and but for his wonderful vitality would not now he living He may pass away at any moment, or he may again rally and live several days. The hemorrhages are accompanied with great suffering and hypodermic injections are necessary to prolong life. The movement of watermelons from the south to the north has begun in earnest. The people in Chicago seem to he fond of melons and are drawing pretty heavily on the 1909 stock, judging from the number of melons that went through here yesterday. There were two special trains over the Monon between New Albany and Chicago and there were between forty and fifty cars of melons. As each car contained over 1,000 melons some idea is obtained of the number that are sold in the Windy City.